Cardiac transcription factor Csx/Nkx2-5: Its role in cardiac development and diseases

Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 252-268

  Akazawa, Hiroshi ^a   Komuro, Issei ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac development; Cardiac hypertrophy; Cardioprotection; Congenital heart disease; Homeobox; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN CSX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX2.5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DROSOPHILA; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CARDIOMEGALY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEART; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART DISEASES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MUTATION; MYOCARDIUM; ORGANOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 21344435944     PISSN: 01637258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2005.03.005     Document Type: Review

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